| Preface |
Lawrence E. Sullivan |
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| Series Foreword |
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim |
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| Introduction |
Christopher Key Chapple |
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| Chapter 1 |
The Cultural Underpinnings:
Traditional Hindu Concepts of Nature
“Dharmic Ecology”
O. P. Dwivedi
“The Five Great Elements (Pancamahabhuta):
An Ecological Perspective”
K. L. Seshagiri Rao
“Nature Romanticism and Sacrifice in Rgvedic
Interpretation”
Laurie L. Patton
“State Responsibility for Environmental Management:
Perspectives from Hindu Texts on Polity”
Mary McGee
“Literary Foundations for an Ecological Aesthetic:
Dharma, Ayurveda, the Arts, and Abhijnanasakuntalam”
T. S. Rukmani
“Reading the Bhagavadgita from an Ecological
Perspective”
Lance E. Nelson
“Can Hindu Beliefs and Values Help India Meet
Its Ecological Crisis?”
Anil Agarwal |
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| Chapter 2 |
Gandhian Philosophy
and the Development of an Indigenous Indian Environmental
Ethic
“Too Deep for Deep Ecology: Gandhi and the
Ecological Vision of Life”
Vinay Lal
“The Inner Logic of Gandhian Ecology”
Larry D. Shinn |
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| Chapter 3 |
Forests in Classic
Texts and Traditions
“The Natural History of the Ramayana”
David Lee
“City, Forest, and Cosmos: Ecological Perspectives
from the Sanskrit Epics”
Philip Lutgendorf
“‘Sacred Grove’ and Ecology: Ritual
and Science”
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli
“‘If You Cut a Branch You Cut My Finger’:
Court, Forest, and Environmental Ethics in Rajasthan”
Ann Grodzins Gold |
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| Chapter 4 |
Flowing Sacrality
and Risking Profanity: The Yamuna, Ganga, and Narmada
Rivers
“River of Love in an Age of Pollution”
David L. Haberman
“Separate Domains: Hinduism, Politics, and
Environmental Pollution”
Kelly D. Alley
“The Narmada: Circumambulation of a Sacred
Landscape”
Chris Deegan
“Sacred Rivers, Sacred Dams: Competing Visions
of Social Justice and Sustainable Development along
the Narmada”
William F. Fisher
“Green and Red, Not Saffron: Gender and the
Politics of Resistance in the Narmada Valley”
Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman |
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| Chapter 5 |
Can Hindu Text and
Ritual Practice Help Develop Environmental Conscience?
“Rituals of Embedded Ecologies: Drawing Kolams,
Marrying Trees, and Generating Auspiciousness”
Vijaya Nagarajan
“The Ritual Capsule of Durga Puja: An Ecological
Perspective”
Madhu Khanna
“Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Chipko
Resistance”
George A. James
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Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Coypright
© 2000 Center for the Study of World Religions,
Harvard Divinity School.
Reprinted with permission. |
